Thanks to BBedit being recordable I found my mistake. Sorry for the hassle.
tell application "BBEdit"
tell front window
replace "-+ \\d+> " using "" options {search mode:grep}
end tell
end tell
I always forget that constants are not strings... But the literal \\d was
unexpected...
JC
> On Apr 3, 2018, at 11:39, Jean-Christophe Helary
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I understand why the following grep search doesn't work:
>
> tell application "BBEdit"
> tell front window
> replace "^-+ " using "" options {search mode:"grep"}
> end tell
> end tell
>
> The string "-- " is present and the replace works when I don't use the grep
> option and search for the literal string instead, so there must be something
> wrong with the option syntax...
>
> Jean-Christophe Helary
> -----------------------------------------------
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> @brandelune
>
>
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